Overview
- Description
- This collection contains questionnaires distributed by various Polish courts to districts and provinces and to municipal authorities near the sites of concentration camps and ghettos in Poland. The questionnaires request information about mass executions and mass graves.
- Alternate Title
- Court inquiries about executions and mass graves in districts, provinces, camps, and ghettos
- Date
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inclusive:
1945
Physical Details
- Language
- Polish
- Genre/Form
- Questionnaires.
- Extent
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21,097 digital images : JPEG ; 63,5 GB .
19 microfilm reels (digitized) ; 35 mm.
- System of Arrangement
- This collection is arranged thematically.
Records are arranged in the original order of their acquisition from the source archive. The museum has acquired only selected records from Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, or IPN). More information about this collection and other materials in the possession of the Institute of National Remembrance, including archival finding aids from the Archives of the Institute of National Remembrance, is available at the website: https://ipn.gov.pl
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. Researchers must complete and sign a User Declaration form before access is granted to materials from the Institute of National Remembrance (Instytut Pamięci Narodowej).
- Conditions on Use
- 1. Each researcher using the materials obtained from the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) or materials whose originals belong to the IPN must complete the registration procedure required by USHMM.
2. Publication or reproduction of documents (in the original language, in facsimile form or in the form of a translation of an excerpt or of the entire document) or making them available to a third party in any form requires the written consent of the Institute of National Remembrance (archiwumipn@ipn.gov.pl). The use of an excerpt defined as the fair use right to quote does not require obtaining consent.
3. Researchers assume all responsibility for the use of materials that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance.
4. References to documents that belong to the Institute of National Remembrance must cite the Institute of National Remembrance as the owner of the original documents and include the full reference citation of the Institute of National Remembrance in the citations. - Copyright Holder
- Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camps--Poland--Occupation--1939-1945. Massacres--Poland--History--20th century. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Occupation–History. World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons--Poland. War crimes--History--Poland-20th century. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--History--Occupation. Courts
- Geographic Name
- Poland (Territory under German occupation, 1939-1945) Poland--Politics and government--1945-. Białystok (Poland) Gdańsk (Poland) Kielce (Poland : Voivodeship) Kielce (Poland) Kraków (Poland) Lublin (Poland) Łódź (Poland) Pomerania (Poland and Germany) Poznań (Poland) Rzeszów (Poland) Dąbrowa Białostocka (Poland) Warsaw (Poland) Wrocław (Poland) PoznanÌ (Poland : Voivodeship) Poland
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (Institute of National Remembrance-Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation), Sygn.163. Deposited to the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej from the various Polish courts. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives acquired microfilm copies of selected files in 1991. The Archives received the microfilm in April 1992.
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-27 08:57:21
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn503615
Additional Resources
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- Terms of Use
- This record is digitized but cannot be downloaded online.
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